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Bibliography

Note: This list of references is in no way complete, but included are a few of the books and articles that I found especially useful in the writing of Allergy-Free Gardening.

Hortus Third - Bailey, Liberty Hyde, Bailey, Ethel Zoe, and Editors, Cornell University - Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976, London, New York

Modern Roses 10 - Cairns, Thomas - The American Rose Society, Shreveport Louisiana, 1995 - For serious rose lovers, this is the book.

Sunset Western Garden Book - Clark, David, and Hogan, Elizabeth L., Editors - Lane Publishing Company, 1986, Menlo Park, CA - For the Pacific West Coast, this is one of the most useful general gardening books

Landscape Plants for Eastern North America - Flint, Harrison L. - John Wiley & Sons, 1983, New York

North American Landscape Trees - Jacobson, Arthur Lee - Ten Speed Press, Berkeley 1996 - One of the very best books on hardy landscape trees. Jacobson understands sex systems in trees and always includes this information. Great attention to detail

Allergy Plants - Jelks, Mary MD - Immunolo and Allergy Clinics of NA 1889: 381-399 - and also, Jelks, Mary MD, Aeroallergens of Florida

The Euphorbiales - Jury, S.L., Reynolds, Cutler, and Evans - The Linnean Society of London, The Whitefriars Press, Great Britian,1987

Aeroallergens In The Midwestern United States: Pollen and Spores Hazardous to Health - Lewis, Walter H., and Imber, Wayne E. - IV Int. Palynol. Conf., Lucknow (1976-77) 3 : 466-474, 1981

Airborne Pollen of the Neotropics - Lewis, Walter H. - Grana 25:75-83, 1986. Uppsala 20 March 1986. ISSN 0017-3134

Airborne and Allergenic Pollen of North America - Lewis, Walter H., Vinay, Prathibha, and Zenger, Vincent E. - The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1983 - From a purely scientific point of view, I consider this the best book ever written on the connections between plants and pollen allergy.

Distribution and Incidence of North American Pollen Aeroallergens - Lewis, Walter H., Dixit, Anu, and Ward, Walter - Am J Otolaryngol, 12:205-226, 1991

Medical Botany - Lewis, Walter H., and Lewis, Memory Elvin - John Wiley and Sons Publications, 1977, New York - A fascinating book!

North American Pollinosis Due to Insect-Pollinated Plants - Lewis, Walter H., Vinay, Prathibha - Washington University Department of Biology, May 1979, St Louis, Missouri

Tropical to Warm Temperate Aerospora of Vascular Plants - Lewis, Walter H. - 1990 Washington University, St Louis, Missouri - This is a very extensive bibliography of useful sites up to 1990. For the serious allergy researcher, this is a good place to start

Pacific Coast Trees - McMinn, Howard E., and Maino, Evelyn - University of California Press, Berkeley, 1981 - A fine, easy-to-use book for identifying west coast trees

Handbook of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Horticulture - Mortensen, Ernest, and Bullard, Ervin - USDA, May 1964, Washington DC

A California Flora and Supplement - Muntz, Philip A., and Keck, David D. - University of California Press, Berkeley, 1968 - This is not light reading, but is nonetheless the "Bible" on native California species

Modeling the effects of Urban Vegetation on Air Pollution - Nowak, David J., McHale, P.J., Ibarra, M., Crane, D., Stevens, J., and Luley, C. - Plenum Press, 1998, New York

Is This Your Child? - Rapp, Doris MD - William Morrow and Company, 1991, New York - Doris Rapp is a true pioneer in allergy study

Manual of the Trees of North America - Sargent, Charles Sprague - Dover Publications, Inc., 1965, New York - One of the very best

Gardening In the Upper Midwest - Snyder, Leon C. - University of Minnesota Press, 1978, Minneapolis

Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening - Taylor, Norman - Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948, Cambridge, Massachusetts - This is an old but wonderful book. One of my all time favorites, this is a very useful general gardening book.

Reliable Roses - Utterback, Christine - Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1997, New York - Good book for picking out roses with extra disease resistance.

Maples of the World - Van Gelderen, D.M., de Jong, P.C., Oterdoom, H.J. - Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, 1994 - The very best book I've ever read on Maples

The people's handbook of Allergies and Allergens - Winter, Ruth - Contemporary Books, Inc., 1984, Chicago

Pollen Grains - Wodehouse, R. P. - McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1935, New York - Wodehouse was one of the first and one of the best. Pollen Grains is a classic in allergy literature